Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-19
OPINIONS OF SENATORS.
Nr. EdmuDds SsEs Lamar viii be Gem
firmed-WIll Anarchy be Debated In
the Next Senate?
Views of Some of tho Lesdiag Senators on
tho Exclusion Of ana1 ch1sss from
the Country.
Specie. Correspondence Of the Gazette.

Specia. Correspondence Of the Gazette.
! WASHINGTON, Nov. I6.-Seeing in
several papers east and west the sr-
lnouncement inst Senator Eimunds Of
Vermont had said inst the Senate would
refuse TO confirm Lamar SIS = Supreme
Judge on tae ground th45 be was & Cor
iederate colonel, and therefore 8 violat0r
Of the oath ne had once taken 20 support
the Cons mutton Ct the Uoi5ed States.
called on the Senator this morning. He
Wig evidently surprised 50 hear the re
| port, but he simply remarked, al have
| satd no such thing. / haze though 10
saCh thiag. Know of no such intention
on the part Of anybody"
Senator EJmunds declined 10 ssy whSt
you'd be done 10 cut down the surplus.
br- = il 80 =. - CAS- no confidence iG
ne success Of say compromise measure
sud that he is already preparing C speech
advocating : con inued high tariff sna
/ insisting tn2t there Shall be d intuition
Of internal revenue only.
l called on Senator Plat % Connecticut
4pd asked him shout tha ststamen5 con
'erning the probable rejection hY the
nate Of Secretary L2mar's nomination
20 the Supreme bench. He said:
"NCGting could be more improbable or
prGp0stGrOus. There is, I think, nobody
in the Senate who wou u 1.v 3ll &, 70
Mr.. Lamar FOR any such reason. The Wsr
IVES 2 bad one, but it ia over, aad
the Senate might IS TEL object TO & car
didate because his grandfather wss
Tory in the Revolution. The Rapublica9
parly will certainly not plSc5 Itself in the
attitude of fighting the war over agSin on
the Old issues. l might of course wish
inst Mr., Lamar had had more recent ex-
per enCe at the bsr and Was familiar WITH
che decisions Of the last Ten years, as
Garland is, for instance; bus he has =
Judicial and Thoughtful mipd, and might
make fine judge. At any rate, that is
the Presidents Lookout, not ours"
asked S nat0r platt f tha Sepate wae
l kelly 20 take any action looking towards
preventing anarchists from coming to tnis
country.
at Is not very likely" h said. "There
has been some Tsl& IN that direction, but
LIDO not see how lay, cen We'll be
framed that Will cover the case. It would
De practically impossible for our c0nsuls |
TO know enough about emigran@s TO ell
able them TO give certificates Of caarec-
Ter. 'Eg5ry STATE and city has ample lan |
10 enaole it to control anarchists, end |
they ought 30 be prevented from making |
incendiaTY appeals and calling upon au-
tispCes TO resist courts and siaV police
men. To instigase 8 crowd to murder is
nos TO exercise free speech, but 10 COM
nit crime. This is the piece to draw the
ice, and it will probably be drawn
more rigidly hereafter, especially in all
aTge cities wis re the 'mCuth-men' con-
5regate."
Senator Evarts came yesterday and
moved at once into tine mammoth double
house, corner OF K and Sixteenth streets.
called this morning snd fouadsfim loek-
ng little thinner taan usueHif p0sei-
lie, but cheerful and busy preparing kfor44
he session. asked him about Ukhfsi
;5suces.
"SAe hasn't any that know of,a Said
dr. EV&rts" az have yet 10 mar Of
.nyb0dv but George Tichnor Curtis, who |.
wants Utah admitted as sGa6e on anvil
UGH terms as she proposes. 44Pia U1iteat
states IS not suffering seriously by beipgl
Ieprived Of her company, and csn afford
0 wait. Dakota, moreover, is ready, and
as twice ar thrice the pooulstion OF
Jtah, and Congress ought to admit her 81
ne state or two, as soon So her people
Iefaitely decide what they waat."
l asked New York's senioriuuior sens
or what he thought OF the postal tele-
rsph schemeN
lowing with any Of Mr.. Edmunds' heif-
Ts," he said with what was meant 10
ass for laugh. "rhe postal telegraph
, his scheme. He thinks the government
u2ht to run telegraph as an auxiliary
f postoffices, messages and msils being
orwarded by the same set of hands. II
you'd require careful oJgantzsti0n and
Management to make it succeed. And it
lay thus be benefit. do not feel like
myself, here and now, on the
ubject. The Senate is the place to dis
uss it and decide it, and I think l will
os;pone it till then"
Judge Chapman, new Representative
;om Michigan, is early on the ground, {
nd l Wss presented to him ct Wizards. 7
asked him about anarchists, and what :
las to be done with them. He seemed I
slieved that the five Chicago dynamite {
were dead, and added:
Undoubtedly, it is desirable to prevent
len from coming TO this country to live (
Tho do not believe In law. They are
nemies OF all social order. They inveigh
gsinst our institutions before they know =
hat they are. Take Lipgg, for instance,
e killed himself in Chicago; he had been
l this country three years. II will not
o to permit men to come here to ex-
lott wild theories Of government. How
} keep such men out is the question.
Te must not destroy the safeguards of
Or liberty by severe measures framed to
revent others from destroying them. I
N not prepared with plan; but one
ust be found"
Congressman Breckenridge ofArkaasas
lid to me: eyes, this question of ansr-
ny msy come up in Congress, for almost
verything does. But it is not national
sue, but only matter of police regula
on. 1t seems to me Governor Oglesby
ss acted fairly and wisely. It is impos-
bic to exclude snarchlsm. We can't
y On embargo upon the baggage OF q s
ANS brain. We can't keep ouG opinions,
or punish them. We can only punish
vert acts. end making an incendiary
beech is an overt act"
W. A. CRoFFUT.
ANARCHY NAT DOWN TpON